Laura C. Stevenson

A Writer in Vermont

Recent Books

"Laura C. Stevenson's wonderful RETURN IN KIND shows us the depth and spirit of geography: how generations, living and dead, can sing from a single patch of ground. Her main character, Joel Hendrickson, has lost his wife and is left land from her family in the stark beauty of Vermont; it is an inheritance which, he soon sees, offers answers to mysteries about his wife, Letty, and about his own soul. A vivid cast of characters, living and dead--the wise Eleanor, the stunning young Charlie, the ghost of Nathaniel--surround him in this place of discovery, darkness, rebirth; Stevenson stitches their lives together--their meaning for one another--brilliantly. The work is a rarity, steering clear of popular strategies and offering unrelenting honesty. This is a powerful read--a highly intelligent, moving, and humane novel."

Joseph Hurka author of Fields of Light: A Son Remembers His Heroic Father (winner of the Pushcart Editors' Book Award) and the novel, Before.

About Deafness

Laura has spoken about deafness:

Laura gave the Edmund Lyon Memorial Lecture at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, New York, December, 2011.
Lecture